French Shooting

Although the recent shooting in France are not entirely related to religion or what we have been doing in class I still believe that it is important to blog about. It began when a rogue self declared al Qaida member shot and killed three french paratroopers. Soon he was being hunted by the french government. He then continued his killing spree when he killed a rabbi and two hebrew school students. Both were children. This made national news causing a manhunt for this madman.

According to sources this man was on his own. His cause for the rampage was the unavenged deaths of Palestinian children who were killed by Israeli forces. The nation of palestine has stated that it completely disagrees with Merah's ways. 

This is a vague example of where religion creates something evil to happen in this world. But I do not think that is religion playing a role. I believe that Merah was just a sick minded person who needed an excuse to start a violent rampage.